Show Me God · What the Message From Space Is Telling Us About God by Heeren, Fred -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page What Are These "Wonders"? Epigraph Dedication Copyright & Permissions Author's Note Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Preface

Facts That Changed Three Minds

Part I – Extraterrestrial Life: Science's Ultimate Quest

Chapter 1 – The Meaning of Life in Martian Rocks?

How to Become a Rock Star The Claim How Strong Is the Evidence? Should It Be Obvious? Would God Create Life Elsewhere? Getting the Facts on Martian History What Will the Final Results Mean to Us Earthlings? Explaining the Origins of Life on Earth

Chapter 2 – Exoplanets, SETI, and the Likelihood of Contact

Why SETI Expects Results Spotting Exoplanets Indirectly Spotting Exoplanets Directly How to Make Radio Contact with Space Aliens Great Expectations SETI Results Bottlenecks on the Road to Intelligence Is the Expectation Scientific or Philosophical? The Personal Search—for Transcendence

Part II – God and the Origin of Everything

Chapter 3 – Is the IIP God the Best Explanation?

Chapter 4 – The Alternatives: The Non-God Explanations

The Universe Without a Start Combinations of Starts and Non-Starts There Simply Are No Natural Explanations for Ultimate Origins Conclusion: Science Ends Where the Bible Begins

Chapter 5 – Scientific Pointers to Creation

Chapter 6 – The Big Bang Theory

The Basis for the Big Bang Theory

Chapter 7 – The Bible and the Big Bang

Part III – Evidence of Purpose

Chapter 8 – Evidence of Design

Addressing the "Blind Chance" Position From Nothing to Nature Purposeful Selection No. 1:*22 Purposeful Selection No. 2: Purposeful Selection No. 3: Purposeful Selection No. 4: Purposeful Selection No. 5: Purposeful Selection No. 6: Purposeful Selection No. 7: Purposeful Selection No. 8: Purposeful Selection No. 9: Conclusion

Chapter 9 – Alternative Explanations for Design

The Anthropic Principle The Weak Anthropic Principle (WAP) The Strong Anthropic Principle (SAP) The Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP) The Final Anthropic Principle (FAP) Why We're Special—With or Without a Recent Creation

Chapter 10 – Implications of Design

The Values and Meaning Offered by the "Chance" Position Design Drives Scientists to a Designer Which God?—The Scientist's Choice Which Scientists?—God's Choice Conclusion: Designed to Know Him

Part IV – Which Cosmic History Is Ours?

Chapter 11 – Is the Gospel Logical?

The Logical Cosmic Options: A Logical Examination of History: Logically Addressing the Objections*27 Objection 2: "The Gospel Sounds Too Foolish" Objection 3: "The Gospel Is Too Narrow" A Logical Application: Conclusion

Chapter 12 – The Healthy Skeptic

Bonus Section #1 – A Little Science Fiction

The Message from Space

Bonus Section #2 – What Everyone Ought to Know About the Origin of Science

Fifty Believers Who Led the Way in Science

Bonus Section #3 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About 20th-Century Cosmology

Timeline of 20th- & 21st-Century Cosmological Discoveries Q & A with Today's Leading Cosmologists

The Bible and the Message from Space Footnotes Notes About the Author Scenes from the Video The Cast from the Audiocassette About the Book Backcover